Polls and questionnaires are an extremely useful tool for gauging opinions or statistics about a particular subject. Poll Everywhere is an extremely effective web app for carrying out instant polls and questionnaires, removing the need for complicated setups to carry out polls quickly. It’s similar to other poll and survey creation apps, such as FluidSurvey, SurveyGizmo, and Pro Profs Poll Maker.

The Poll Everywhere mobile app is ideal for creating and presenting polls which participants are then able to respond to via web, Android or iOS device. Audience members or participants can even use the Poll Everywhere app to respond to the presenter’s questions live. Presenters can ask the audience questions and, within seconds, display poll responses live.(more…)

Customer feedback and market research are among the critical factors that determine the success of a brand. If you care for your customers or are a true believer in a democratic process before rolling out a new product/feature, polls and surveys are the right tools. Online surveys are by far the fastest and cheapest modes to collect information and feedback from users. If you’re looking for a more powerful way of analyzing your customers you could even try a SaaS solution like UserVoice, which pulls together all customer support issues and customer feedback in one nifty user engagement dashboard.

We’ve put together a list of online survey and polling apps for you to get a better understanding of your customer’s mindset. Do read on.

It’s easy to assume your customers love your products and services, or your readers love your site, until you get an angry email telling you how terrible your stuff is. Getting your customers’ ongoing feedback would be far better, but most people simply won’t take the time to fill out a survey or write you an email unless something is really bugging them.

What if there was a way to get feedback quickly without bugging your customers? That’s exactly what Temper is designed for.

Everyone has an opinion about almost everything. Never mind if one is an expert in a topic or not, there will be something to say about it anyway. Now that social networking is a rage, you cannot away escape from opinions as they are always being shouted and posted around you.

Most of what I wrote above holds good for face to face, off the cuff conversations. However, if you were to look for people to give their opinions on the record, even anonymously, the numbers won’t be flattering. From the mighty Polldaddy to the innovative new comer Eval.me, there is no dearth of free and paid apps to create online polls. The problem is getting people to give you their opinion in a structured poll rather than just in a random ranting tweet. How does GoPollGo stand out from the rest?

If you’ve had to get feedback on a product/service or learn about people’s needs/opinions, you’ll agree that web-based surveys are the easiest way to poll your audience – but do you get the most of your efforts? Many people ignore online surveys and a large number also rush through them in order to quickly qualify for any incentives that are offered for filling them out. Is there a way to optimize the survey exercise for marketers and researchers to get more participants and better-quality responses?

Eval.me believes it has found the answer, in people’s innate desire to do good. The app aims to help you build surveys easily and get more people to take them by offering a unique incentive – for every survey filled, the surveyor will donate US$1 to a charity selected by the respondent. The approach to getting a higher number of responses is certainly interesting, but does it really work? And how does the app stand up to the competition? Let’s build a survey or two and find out.

Online surveys are a drag. Usually, they’re just a series of questions on a drab-looking page that are no fun to answer, and they make you wish you hadn’t agreed to fill out the survey in the first place. That’s probably why market researchers, advertising firms, online stores, and corporations worry about completion rates – if a participant doesn’t finish a survey, the data gathered is often of little or no use for their analysis. So what are your options? You can either spend a lot of time and money building a well-designed survey from scratch, or you can try PopSurvey.

PopSurvey helps you create beautiful surveys that people will want to complete. The app makes it easy to build surveys, analyze results and promote your surveys. It’s currently available with a number of plans to suit your needs, including a free one and is great for getting started with conducting surveys. But will PopSurvey meet your requirements? Let’s test-drive it to find out.